Walmart plans Canadian expansion

Walmart Canada said Tuesday that it plans to invest “nearly $500 million” in expansion in Canada in the coming year, which will include $376 million for new and expanded stores, $91 million for its distribution network and $31 million for ecommerce.
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Walmart said its store count in Canada will increase to 395 by the end of January 2015, including 282 supercenters and 113 discount stores, up from its ...

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Rudy Haugeneder (not verified)

on Feb 4, 2014

Only Canadians who have no self respect will shops at Wal-Mart and Target stores that threaten to wipe out home-grown Canadian businesses, not because they offer good quality of service, but because they are so big they can force suppliers to slash profit margins to almost zilch -- something Canadian outfits like Loblaw and Canadian Tire are unable to force suppliers to do to the same degree, thereby allowing Wal-Mart to offer slightly lower prices, but which still afford the company tens of millions, perhaps billions, in profits that are funneled into its USA headquarters, while poorly paid Canadian associates (employees) barely survive.
Real Canadians, and there are very few of them it seems, will boycott American superstore intruders unless they take into account Canadian business sensibilities, and greatly reduce the number of stores they operate in this country, especially since their prices suck and their service is even worse.
Boycott, boycott, boycott.